Trosolwg o'r swydd

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and innovative band 8a clinician to work with young people and families in the borough of Merton who have been historically underrepresented in mainstream services. The role forms part of the CAMHS provision provided into Merton Youth Justice Service (YJS) & Contextual Safeguarding Team.

This role is a secondment for 5 months at 1.0wte.

The postholder will be joining a passionate team in an established and valued role which will contribute to the development and delivery of services that seek to transform mental health delivery for marginalized young people involved in or at risk of offending.  

The service is informed by AMBIT (Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment), trauma-informed, systemic and attachment-based principles and is working towards implementing community psychology and co-production into its practice model. The team also takes a critical approach to addressing ethnic, racial, and social disproportionality within the Youth Justice System.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

The postholder will be working within a multi-disciplinary context to deliver creative and adapted evidence-based care, including direct psychological assessment and treatment to young people and families. This would include cases where there are risks of offending and contextual harm such as child criminal exploitation. These are often complex cases that require engagement and support from several agencies and provide opportunities for creative multi-agency joint working.

Alongside direct clinical work, there will be opportunities to provide leadership, consultancy, and training to partner agencies such as Pupil Referral Units, the wider Youth Justice & Contextual Safeguarding Team, Children’s Social Care and Police to embed psychological and trauma informed care. There will also be opportunities to contribute to policy work, wider service development, and become involved in co-produced projects within the local authority including a psychology-led team formulation pathway for complex cases.

The postholder will also provide clinical supervision to band 7 clinicians within the Youth Justice Service and adjacent teams (Pupil Referral Units).

Candidates will be committed to partnership working, hold excellent communication, engagement and interpersonal skills, and have experience of working with marginalised young people in Youth Justice and/or Social care contexts.   

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

About our location:

This post will be based at Merton Civic Centre 

Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.